[R-390] Selling Collina R-390A here, not on ebay
Paul Staupe
pstaupe at qwest.net
Fri Jan 5 13:43:00 EST 2007
Friends,
I have a beautiful Collins R-390A for sale here. $995.00 plus expert
boxing and shipping costs.
Best regards,
Paul WØAD
Minneapolis
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> 1. Re: R390A not working at all (Tim Shoppa)
> 2. Re: R390A not working at all (Mark Huss)
> 3. R-390a Part Of First ELINT Satellite Recon System (Jim M.)
> 4. Re: Spam Alert: [R-390] R-390a Part Of First ELINT Satellite
> Recon System (Cecil Acuff)
> 5. RE: R390A not working at all (b_hagen at sbcglobal.net)
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> Subject:
> Re: [R-390] R390A not working at all
> From:
> shoppa_r390a at trailing-edge.com (Tim Shoppa)
> Date:
> Wed, 03 Jan 2007 17:59:10 -0500
> To:
> mhuss1 at bellatlantic.net, Flowertime01 at wmconnect.com,
> b_hagen at sbcglobal.net
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><b_hagen at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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>
>>It is good to be part of this group which keeps me in touch with my 390.
>>Seldom have much to contribute however as my MOS was a guided missile
>>repairman. If you have a defective Nike maybe I can suggest a solution.
>>
>>
>
>Not Nike, but my Bomarc missiles keep on prematurely erecting. Did
>you just deal with the missiles or maybe you know something about the
>erection/launch decoders?
>
>Maybe the problem is in the phone lines to the SAGE...
>
>Tim.
>
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> Subject:
> Re: [R-390] R390A not working at all
> From:
> Mark Huss <mhuss1 at bellatlantic.net>
> Date:
> Wed, 03 Jan 2007 18:21:28 -0500
> To:
> Flowertime01 at wmconnect.com
>
>
> Oh, and be glad you didn't' get to work on an MLQ-24. For the
> uninitiated, an MLQ-24 is a "Mobile Non-Communications Intercept
> System ". Take three Radar Intercept systems, dating 1944 (Army Air
> Corp), 1948(U.S.Air Force), and 1956 (U.S. Navy), all designed to be
> mounted in Aircraft. Shove it all into the back of a Pick-Up Truck.
> Figure out how to wire them together so that they at least can live
> together, if not exactly cooperate. Take two radomes designed to be
> blister-mounted to the Fuselage of a B-29, and stick them on top of
> two crank-up towers bolted to the side of the Pick-up Truck. Add
> plastic Palm fronds stolen from the lobby of the R&R hotel in
> Wie-jong-bu to the Radomes for camouflage, since you can't put them
> under the Camouflage nets, and 2nd Lt. "Crash" 'Totaled Three Jeeps
> Five Times in Six Months" Rothmann insists they be camouflaged. Then
> power the whole thing from a motor-Generator off of a WWII SCR Radar,
> complete with Spark-gap "Bang" Generator, bolted to the Generator
> Trailer. Finally, park the whole she-bang on top of the tallest
> treeless mountain you can find with a direct line-of-sight to the
> Enemy, and hope he doesn't decide to blow away the two Magic Palm
> Trees that suddenly appeared in 40 below snow where no other palm
> trees have ever appeared before.
> By the way, that was one of "Crash's" better ideas. Don't make me tell
> you about the time we got iced in on top of a mountain on the DMZ. And
> his idea for clearing the dirt track down was to have us pour every
> drop of gas and diesel we had on it and setting the mountain on fire.
> Flowertime01 at wmconnect.com wrote:
>
>> Mark,
>>
>> Love your story.
>>
>> I sure hope you enjoyed Korea as much as I did.
>>
>> I only saw one MLQ-24 in Korea and I did not get to work on it.
>>
>> Strange to discover all these relations after all the R390 stuff we
>> have swapped here on the reflector.
>>
>> Roger L. Ruszkowski
>>
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> Subject:
> [R-390] R-390a Part Of First ELINT Satellite Recon System
> From:
> "Jim M." <jmiller1706 at cfl.rr.com>
> Date:
> Wed, 3 Jan 2007 18:30:44 -0500
> To:
> <R-390 at mailman.qth.net>
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>
> Interesting bit of history, declassified in 1998 after 40-some years,
>
> http://ncst-www.nrl.navy.mil/HomePage/GRAB/GRAB_Photos.html
>
> Scroll down to "Receiving Hut" photo. Two 390-A's
>
> Jim N4BE
>
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> Subject:
> Re: Spam Alert: [R-390] R-390a Part Of First ELINT Satellite Recon System
> From:
> "Cecil Acuff" <chacuff at cableone.net>
> Date:
> Wed, 3 Jan 2007 17:50:34 -0600
> To:
> "Jim M." <jmiller1706 at cfl.rr.com>, <R-390 at mailman.qth.net>
>
>
> I'd never guess that antenna array to be of any use on HF? What's up
> with that. Looks like VHF Yagi's.....maybe some frequency
> downconverting going on in there somewhere....
>
> I don't see anything in the picture that I would expect to be doing
> that job. One of the R-390A's looks to have a frequency counter
> mounted above it. Not sure what the other is unless it's a mixer of
> some sort to put the audio from both radio's on tape...
>
> Not sure what is mounted below desktop...
>
> Interesting stuff....
>
> Cecil....
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim M." <jmiller1706 at cfl.rr.com>
> To: <R-390 at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 5:30 PM
> Subject: Spam Alert: [R-390] R-390a Part Of First ELINT Satellite
> Recon System
>
>
>> Interesting bit of history, declassified in 1998 after 40-some years,
>>
>> http://ncst-www.nrl.navy.mil/HomePage/GRAB/GRAB_Photos.html
>>
>> Scroll down to "Receiving Hut" photo. Two 390-A's
>>
>> Jim N4BE
>>
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> Subject:
> RE: [R-390] R390A not working at all
> From:
> <b_hagen at sbcglobal.net>
> Date:
> Wed, 3 Jan 2007 19:38:20 -0500
> To:
> "'Tim Shoppa'" <shoppa_r390a at trailing-edge.com>,
> <mhuss1 at bellatlantic.net>, <Flowertime01 at wmconnect.com>
>
>
>Hi Tim:
>
>Sorry to be of no help. All the stuff that was at WSPG while I was there is
>long gone - the corporal, the Honest John,etc., except the Nike and I have
>no idea what version finally got deployed as it happened long after I was
>out. Actually most of my time was in the radar lab being a tech for civilian
>contractors. Good duty.
>
>Bruce
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Tim Shoppa [mailto:shoppa_r390a at trailing-edge.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 5:59 PM
>To: mhuss1 at bellatlantic.net; Flowertime01 at wmconnect.com;
>b_hagen at sbcglobal.net
>Cc: r-390 at mailman.qth.net
>Subject: Re: [R-390] R390A not working at all
>
><b_hagen at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
>
>>It is good to be part of this group which keeps me in touch with my 390.
>>Seldom have much to contribute however as my MOS was a guided missile
>>repairman. If you have a defective Nike maybe I can suggest a solution.
>>
>>
>
>Not Nike, but my Bomarc missiles keep on prematurely erecting. Did you just
>deal with the missiles or maybe you know something about the erection/launch
>decoders?
>
>Maybe the problem is in the phone lines to the SAGE...
>
>Tim.
>
>
>
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